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Memoirs of Glueckel of Hameln
	Author: Gluckel Publisher: Schocken Category: Book List Price: ~~$15.00~~ Buy Used: $1.58 You Save: $13.42 (89%) New (16) Used (87) Collectible (3) from $1.58 Rating: 12 reviews Sales Rank: 96861 Media: Paperback Pages: 336 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8 Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.9 ISBN: 0805205721 Dewey Decimal Number: 943.5150049240092 EAN: 9780805205725 ASIN: 0805205721 Publication Date: December 27, 1987 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days


Editorial Reviews: Product Description Begun in 1690, this diary of a forty-four-year-old German Jewish widow, mother of fourteen children, tells how she guided the financial and personal destinies of her children, how she engaged in trade, ran her own factory, and promoted the welfare of her large family. Her memoir, a rare account of an ordinary woman, enlightens not just her children, for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of war, plague, pirates, soldiers, the hysteria of the false messiah Sabbtai Zevi, murder, bankruptcy, wedding feasts, births, deaths, in fact, of all the human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived. Accepting this situation as given, she boldly and fearlessly promotes her business, her family and her faith. This memoir is a document in the history of women and of life in the seventeenth century.